# 2021-05-17 Status update

DevFeed: [2021-05-17 Status update](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/2021-05-17-status-update-34220.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2021/05/17/update-2021-05-17/>)

Author: Mobian team

Published: 2021-05-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Mobian's Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mobian-s-blog.md>)

Topics: [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Debian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debian.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [kernels](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kernels.md>), [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintenance.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>)

Tags: [debian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debian.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintenance.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [phones](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/phones.md>), [porting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/porting.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>), [updated](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updated.md>)

## AI overview

This Mobian status update reports progress on distribution stability and tooling, the positive reception of the Mobian Community Edition PinePhone, donations to Debian and investment in infrastructure, and official support for the Pocophone F1 and OnePlus 6 and 6T. The newly supported phones remain unsuitable as daily drivers because modem, audio, and camera functionality is not yet working.

## Source excerpt

The past few months have been quieter than usual regarding Mobian development, but that's not to say we didn't make progress! Actually, even though user-visible changes are few, we kept working on improving both the stability of our distribution and our tooling, so that new developments can be better tested, and reach users faster than they used to. Mobian CE reception and outcomes The Mobian Community Edition PinePhone has been a great success for us, with of course a few hiccups, but the feedback we received so far has been extremely positive. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank Pine64 once again for allowing us to be part of this amazing journey! As you probably know, Pine64 generously donated 10$ per device to the Mobian project, which we received early last month. Out of this amount, we chose to donate 5000EUR  back to the Debian project (which provides the foundation for all of our work on Mobian), and invested about the same amount into our own infrastructure (workstation, build servers...). Finally, we purchased a few additional mobile devices we considered interesting targets and started porting Mobian to those. New supported devices Let's play with Android phones! Until recently, Mobian supported only Pine64's PinePhone, PineTab and Purism's Librem 5. This is partly related to our choice of only using mainline kernels, instead of vendor-provided Android kernels: those use a number of non-standard interfaces, and require additional software, such as Halium, in order to be used with a "standard" Linux userspace. In addition, vendor kernels are generally outdated and very rarely updated to newer kernel releases, which is obviously a concern for long-term maintenance. Fortunately, our friends at postmarketOS have committed to mainlining devices for quite some time now, and by encouraging such development have reached great results so far! Based on their initiative, and more specifically thanks to @calebccff's and @Joel's work on the SDM845 kernel, we have b